Field diary·DII:1c·1928

Oura, Trachonas and Idalion

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Handwritten in Swedish. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 28 of field diary DII:1c (Oura, Trachonas and Idalion), handwritten in Swedish. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:1c, Public domain (CC0).

Unnumbered pageScan 28 of 135

Continued from scan 27

no 2.no 3… though predominantly geometric [page number: 27] L. H. III. Otherwise geometric ware. In the large section 6.85, left 1.70, depth 0.60 there came a fine archaic Egyptian- izing head of limestone, height 11.2. The pick damaged it badly. Not far from there [5. w. 0.20, dj. 0.70] a horse's head of terra- cotta was found, with marked bridle straps and partly preserved painting, length 10.0. Between the 7th and 10th metres real rock comes out into the open, redan at a depth of 0.50-0.75. The rock here cuts the section at right angles in a ridge-like elevation, in which there is a rectangular recess. It resembles a well.

We have evidently come into an unproductive corner of the area, but a firm point is nevertheless a large wall, which cuts the section in a north-east to south-west direction at the 2nd metre. It is the same wall … continues

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain